IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

REVOLUTION

Socialist Challenge No. 112, 6 September 1979 · p. 3 of the scan · 720 words

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soft attitudes being displayed by the Workers Revolutionary Party rewsNewsline, journal Clapham Mullahs.

in an article commented on the threatened executiens of the 14 members of the Iranian Socialist Workers Party, section of the Fourth International:

'The Iranian SWP is an offshoot of Tariq Ali's misnamed tional Marxist Group and the SWP of the United States, which is led by FBI spies.

The article continued: failing to launch a bogus 'women's rights" provocation, and then failing to stir up "human rights" to rescue the agents of the Shah's regime and the SAVAK torturers, the SWP began Kurdish minority in the province and the Arabs in the south.

After reporting the trial of the 14, Newsline informed its reader (Colonel Gaddafi) that the Iranian SWP controlled by American agents whose purpose is to overthrow and imperialist exploitation intrigues against the fion.

• This type of biting exactly the sort employed in the heroic Moscow trials of the 1930s when it was proved that the well-known Jew, Leon Trotsky, was an agent of the Nazis and other assorted counterTrotsky executed by Stalin's agent for his crimes.

But Newsline to its shame shows no such resolve as far as the Iranian 14 are concerned. The article completely capitulates to bourgeois liberalism and merely says that the 14 should be booted out of Iran.' Having said that, let us give credit due.

Newsline revealed that our very own reporter in Nicaragua, Clive Turnbull, 'was the man whe turned state's evidence at the judicial inquiry into the death of Warwick student Kevin Gately, killed during a police charge of this charge the way of justice. duly planted in his head.

Hampton Football of its 1 September edition:

on 25 August it Iranian state of the country.

Interna. 'However, an organisation Keep it up Alex!

'After Give up Guiness the prize for following the western Khomeini base for hardly consistent and. war campaign.

Arab revolulogic was whose head Jonathon Guiness, right-wing Monday Club.

was later SIEMENS Saturday the television For coully.

in Britain, turn the page... us, not to say the renegade Turnbull, who pathetically requested evidence at secreta.

Although Newsline is a bit short on evidence we did not let that stand in An ice-pick was Let us leave the last word to Lawrie McMenemy, the manager of SouthClub, praising the Clapham Mullahs' newspaper thus in 'As part of my up-bringing I was taught to look for the Sports Page first. In some papers this is difficult, because for some reason they tend to • mundane unings polities, the Common Market and the your supplement there is no such problem.' THE Daily Star has just about won anti-Irish hysteria boating accident of Lord Mountbatten. Last Thursday it called on 'every husband who enjoys a pint of Guiness or Harp (actually women enjoy them as well'- Ed.) can order a different brew at the local'.

Such a boycolt everything Irish' campaign might be all very well for the likes of Star proprietor. Victor Matthews but not buying Guiness is such The company is after all owned by a very English aristocratic family happens Тогу MP, leading advocate of the hanging of "terrorists', and a former head of the "ITI A west German militant's view of system in that what's going on behind the commercial TV screens FIGHT RIGHT TO WORKS FOR THEI Unemployed or working come to the Revolution Young Workers Conference in Birmingham on Saturday 15 September, 11am to 6pm. There'll be workshops and discussions. Get all the details from: 76B Digbeth, Birmingham 5. Tel: 021-643 9209.

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